Another ill accident is drouth at the spindlingof corn.
If the weak and spindling shoots are allowed to grow they will draw away the strength from the roots, to the injury of the crop.
It might be possible to get double the number of shoots per acre from thick than from thin planting, but they might be so small and spindling as not to be worth the labor and expense of cutting and marketing.
But, as a rule, very high temperatures induce a spindling growth.
I might have stared at it with the strongest glass and never made it out a nest; the sapling, too, was no thicker at the butt than my wrist, and I should not have dreamed of looking into its tall, spindling top for any kind of a nest.
The black-snakes are asleep, and there is not a coon or cat living that could climb this spindling maple.
If it is grown in deep shade, the leaves become too long andspindling for beauty.
It was an old asparagus bed belonging to the farm, thoroughly well drained and fertilized, but the original crop had grown thin and spindling from being neglected and allowed to drop its seed.
I took them home and spent a whole morning in separating and cutting off thespindling tops to an even length of six inches.
It looks rather out of place surrounded by the weak and spindling interpretations of scenery and water which so readily find a place in the exhibition of the Academy, but it is none the weaker for that.
The moisture kept the tobacco from spindling up too soon; it spread wide leaves of velvet green in rows which went as straight as arrows across the fertile north twenty.
He thought of it as he went down into the woods with Shep to bring home the cows, and he thought of it while he was topping the tobacco, breaking off the budding white flowers to keep the plants from spindling up and going to seed.
To the right and the left of the two explorers were bunches of tuft-grass, here and there groves of slender lodge-poles, and spindling pines and junipers.
After marking it by tying a handkerchief to the bent-over top of a spindling pine, they started back to join their companions.
The spindling operator without hesitation walked over to him and laid his hand on the man's shoulder.
This part of the work should be done as soon as the plants are large enough to pull, and before they begin to "draw" or become spindling from crowding.
Spindling and tender plants will not withstand the exposure of the open ground so well as sturdy, well-grown plants, such as may be secured by proper handling.
Lonesome Cove down there, 'bout a quarter of a mile," he informed them, jerking the butt of his whip in the direction of a thin forest of spindling pines to the right of the highway.
The latter flushed, then burst out laughing after a look toward the miniature forest of spindling pines.
Picking it up, they carried it back in among the trees, Harriet following at a safe distance, picking her way cautiously, not making the slightest sound in moving about among the spindling pines.
There was a day bed--a narrow and spindling affair for a woman of her height and comfortable plumpness.
If the legs still were somewhat spindling their correctly creased casings hid the fact.
What you cannot help seeing is the actual nakedness of the land which with its spindling stubble makes you think of that awful moment of the human head, when utter baldness will be a relief to the spectator.
The land was parched--for it was late in the summer--and the scattered foliage looked small and spindling after the gigantic forests of California.
But how can they catch fishes that size on a little bit of a spindling rod and a line so fine you can hardly see it?
But soon we see some of their leaves turning yellow and falling off, and though they may make considerable growth, it is unsatisfactory because it is spindling and weak.
Very deliberately he lighted a cigarette, found himself an ash-tray and settled down astride a spindlinglittle chair.
A Moorish archway with a spindling grill across the top, gave access to it.
As Varick sat there, his manner politely attentive but his wits far afield, there sounded dully in his ears all that plethora of sickly, silly inanities with which the society reporter embellishes his spindling effort.
Stilty, scrubby little girls with spindlinglegs were scarcely what anyone would find alluring.
Over-watering and high temperature yield soft and spindling plants and also plants that are overgrown and that are liable to severe checking before field setting.
There is danger in having plants too far advanced, and an unexpected delay in field setting may result in spindling and over-hardening that may prove disastrous.
Now we enter the old swamp lot, thick-set with bristling bulrushes and bare and spindling brooms of iron-weed.
Near the coast it assumes the form of a crazy Italian pine, with spindling trunk and massive head of foliage.
